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Flowleap Citation by flowleap-ai — Agent Skill

Name: Flowleap Citation
Author: flowleap-ai

Flowleap Citation

USPTO enriched citation data from office actions — citations by application, forward citations of a document, citation statistics and X-category novelty-destroying references. Trigger when an agent assesses novelty risk, examiner-cited prior art, or how often a patent is cited against later applications.

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FlowLeap Citation Search (USPTO enriched citations)

Auth and global flags: see flowleap-shared.

Which citation universe?

FlowLeap exposes two, and neither is a superset of the other:

This skill — USPTO office-action enriched citations: US only, drawn from examiner reasoning, with X/Y/A relevance categories. Use it for novelty risk, what an examiner actually cited, and how often a document is cited against later US applications.
flowleap-patstat-graph — the worldwide DOCDB citation network from the PATSTAT snapshot, with examiner-vs-applicant origin, confidence tags, and row-level provenance. Use it for citation structure across offices, the path between two patents, or a patent's whole citation picture in one call.

Pick by whether the question is about US examiner reasoning (here) or worldwide citation structure (there). PATSTAT answers are snapshot data with a Data Edition; these are live USPTO records.

By application

flowleap --json citation search 16123456 --size 20
flowleap --json citation search 16123456 --category x --examiner-cited-only
flowleap --json citation search 16123456 --from 2020-01-01 --to 2023-12-31

--from/--to bound the office-action date range (YYYY-MM-DD) — when the examiner cited the reference, not when either document published.

Forward citations (who cites this document)

flowleap --json citation forward US10123456 --size 20

Analysis shortcuts

flowleap --json citation stats 16123456      # counts by category/source
flowleap --json citation novelty 16123456    # X-rated novelty-destroying citations

Categories: x (novelty-destroying), y (inventive-step with combination), a (background), all.

Tools-facade equivalents: search_office_action_citations (by application), search_enriched_citations (forward, by cited document) and get_citation_stats (aggregate counts only). citation novelty has no tool of its own — it is a recipe over search_office_action_citations with category: "X" and examiner_cited_only: true.

---name: flowleap-citationdescription: USPTO enriched citation data from office actions — citations by application, forward citations of a document, citation statistics and X-category novelty-destroying references. Trigger when an agent assesses novelty risk, examiner-cited prior art, or how often a patent is cited against later applications.---# FlowLeap Citation Search (USPTO enriched citations)Auth and global flags: see `flowleap-shared`.## Which citation universe?FlowLeap exposes two, and neither is a superset of the other:- **This skill** — USPTO **office-action enriched** citations: US only, drawn from examiner reasoning, with X/Y/A relevance categories. Use it for novelty risk, what an examiner actually cited, and how often a document is cited against later US applications.- **`flowleap-patstat-graph`** — the **worldwide DOCDB citation network** from the PATSTAT snapshot, with examiner-vs-applicant origin, confidence tags, and row-level provenance. Use it for citation structure across offices, the path between two patents, or a patent's whole citation picture in one call.Pick by whether the question is about US examiner reasoning (here) orworldwide citation structure (there). PATSTAT answers are snapshot data with aData Edition; these are live USPTO records.## By application```bashflowleap --json citation search 16123456 --size 20flowleap --json citation search 16123456 --category x --examiner-cited-onlyflowleap --json citation search 16123456 --from 2020-01-01 --to 2023-12-31````--from`/`--to` bound the **office-action date range** (`YYYY-MM-DD`) — when theexaminer cited the reference, not when either document published.## Forward citations (who cites this document)```bashflowleap --json citation forward US10123456 --size 20```## Analysis shortcuts```bashflowleap --json citation stats 16123456 # counts by category/sourceflowleap --json citation novelty 16123456 # X-rated novelty-destroying citations```Categories: `x` (novelty-destroying), `y` (inventive-step with combination),`a` (background), `all`.Tools-facade equivalents: `search_office_action_citations` (by application),`search_enriched_citations` (forward, by cited document) and`get_citation_stats` (aggregate counts only). `citation novelty` has no tool ofits own — it is a recipe over `search_office_action_citations` with`category: "X"` and `examiner_cited_only: true`.

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